Machine eou dressing boot-forms



JOSEPH BUHGEss, OF LEIcHsTER,MASSACHUSETTS.

- MACHNEFO DRESSING- BOOT-FORMS.

Spieccaton of Letters Patent No.` 8,246, dated July 22, 1851.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BURGEss, ot Leicester, in the county ofWorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulMachine for Dressing Boot- Forms, of which I do hereby declare thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making a part of the specifications, in `Which- Figure l is a frontelevation, showing the boot form in its place. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview with the guides broken away showing the cutter attached to thecutter lever. p

Same letters refer to like parts.

A is the frame on which the machine is placed.

B B are two posts.

C C are two reciprocating cutter levers hung in the posts B D D areguides to hold the boot form in its place t0 be dressed.

E is the rest over which the boot form passes.

F is the crank for driving the cutterlelevers C C are driven bythe crankF, which i i is turned by the pulley I. An undressed form is passedbetween the guides D D and i over the rest E and is dressed to the formrequired (as L Fig. l) by the cutters K K attached to the levers C C.

Vhat I claim as my invention, is-

The circular motion of the cutters attached to one end of a lever, theother end being so confined on the opposite sideof the boot form, as toallow the cutters to play up and down and dress one or both sides of aboot form at a time as herein set forth.

In witness wereof I have hereunto sub scribed `my name the eighth day`of July` eighteen hundred and titty-one.`

In `presence of* N. WV. METOALF, C. H. METOALF.

JOSEPH BURGEss. j

